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“Asked what his intention was, he told the police he wanted to ‘smash their heads in with the bat’ but he later said he would not have taken the bat to them had they turned up.”

Miss Coleman, at Derby Crown Court, sitting at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court, said the offences all took place on December 4.

She said: “The defendant had been sending threatening messages via Snapchat and at 6.30pm one of the victims received an image of the defendant stood in Shaw Croft car park holding a baseball bat making more threats.

“He sent a message saying ‘I want you down here now, I will take your face off and slap you up’.

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Recorder Collingwood Thompson QC (corr) handed Smith an eight-month jail term, suspended for two years and ordered him to attend up to 30 rehabilitation activity requirement days under the supervision of the probation service.

He said: “You have had the narrowest of escapes, take that chance you have been given.”

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